Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-09
TEXAS CROPS.
Information Concerning the Cordi-
ton Of the Cotton, 0at anu Apple
Crops IL Texas.
what the July r. port of the Aericuiturxl
Dopartm mt Says OF the Grow
Ing Crops.

Correspondence OF the Gazette
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-The last report
of the Agricultural Department on the
condition OF the cotton crop in the south
says:
The status Of the cotton crop all over
the country has not declined since the
last report. In the southeast there is g
slight reduction compensated by small
advance in states west OF the Mississippi
The average is 81, which il four points
higher than the average for July i'll the
previous ten years. Il was exceeded in
1873 and $50, and nearly equaied ia July
Of 1881 and 1854, which were years Cf
small production. There have been but
two July records below 90 since 1873.
The state averages are: Virgins, %;
North Carolina, 90; Sonth Carolina, 81;
Georgia. 90; Florida, 9S; Alabsms, 49,
Mississippi, 90; Louisiana, 98; Texas, SO;
! Arkansas, 90; Tennessee, 80.
| The crop is under unusually clean cul-
| tivatiOn. Rarely nave reports been so
uniform III this respect. few returns
| Of growing fields are noticed where rains
have beeD heavy and frequent. There are
always to be found, However, some cot
|
cons tttu.ionqI causes if not from over
cropping; yet it must be admitted that
| there are few crops of the country that
are usually kept as clean as cotton.
n the more northern portion Of the
! Cotton Belt the temperature of June has
scarcely been high enough for vigorous
growth Cool nights have been delete
rious in North Carolina; 81 II 60 in
some places Is the record. Even ii Cen
tral Georgia there las been complaint Of
cool east winds Tetarding the growth.
Nowhere has there been heat TO ipjure,
though absence Of rain has raised the
! specter of drouth IN some quarter5. In
central districts OF. South Carolina rainfall
mas been deficient, and in Georgia this
cause Of complaint is still more general.
Mississippi and Louisiana have had
reasonable distribution OF rains, and
there IS rarely any mention OF needed
moisture.
Even in Texas there has been abundant
rainfall over the eastern and central dis
trict. In some western COUNTIES, where
cotton culture has been undertaken
sparingly, there is some mention Of
drouth; TOR instlnce in Ill., where "the
gcCu1d has not been thoroughly satur-
ated for two years" ii Is said TO be 'stilI
upiniured" In BeXar failure is ap-
pretended unless rain comes soon. In
McLennan it is thought that there is
still time to &c. a good crop il Taias
intervene.
In Concordis, La "recent heavy rains
nave done serious injury" and il Natchi-
toches "the crop is grassy, aud the pros
pect is poorer than for some years" 1t
is said of Columbia that "the crop is not
yet il Ired by the rams, but il will be
soon," and of the crop OF East Carroll,
that ait is grassy on account of too much
rain" "There has been too much rain
for cotton" IN Franklin, Tex in Lamar
cit is doing well, though there is
8 little too much RAIN In
Titus san excess of rain during the past
month has made cotton grassy, but where
il has been kept clean it Is looking well. +"
In Van Zandt "the replanting of that de-
stroved by hail and its grassy condition
reduces the average" "Owing to weeds
and grass" in Delta, 'about per cent of
what was planted was lost, but the re-
mainder is coming out" The prospect
is very good in Dewitt, but it msy be
injured by excess Of rains" In
ter, but eight or ten days
several wears" in Colorado, while in Rlsk
county it was iwell worked, blooming
end fruiting we l." The statement from
Bowie is that "the cotton is doing SPLEEN
CT lily, especially that which hsd good cul-
tiYatiOn"
OF the oat crop the report says: From
.. Mississippi westward the crop was har
vested generally in low condition, with
ONE exceptions. Much of the area w&s
injured By dry weather. In Texas there
was much deterioration. The spring
crop was greatly damaged by drouth in
many districts. There is complaint CT
short straw snd Of light, chafy grain.
Yet IL Montgomery the report was"never
more promising," and in Rains 'the
heaviest yield for several years"
{ Concerning the apple crop the report
speaks as follows:
Southwark along the Atlantic and in
the Gulf states, condition, which was
/ very poor st the date of last report, has
in most states still further declined
There is falling eff of twenty points in
Virginia, ten in North and five IN South
Carolins, two in Georgia, and three IL
Mississippi. A slight Improvement is
: noted in Florida, Alabama, and Lou
isians, while Texas, where many young
: orchards are just coming into bearing
returns the same. In all this section the
r great cause of damage and poor condi-
e ton was the unpropitious weather a
: time of blossom. MSDy correspondent
r speak o. the trees IS being APPARENT.
r permanently injured.
t Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentuck.
! show about the same condition, with a
equally marked decline in averages, 8
;, the sts.es farther south.